Lawyer jobs in Los Angeles, CA

About the role

We are partnered with a private, ultra-high-net-worth family office on the search for its next Tax Attorney & Contracts Counsel. This is a high-trust, high-visibility in-house counsel role with direct exposure to family principals and senior advisors, reporting to the General Counsel / Chief Operating Officer and serving as a core member of the legal and advisory team. The family office is at a pivotal moment — consolidating a sophisticated, diversified portfolio and formalizing how tax strategy, transactional execution, and long-term wealth planning come together across real estate, REITs, private investments, and multi-generational trust structures. This attorney will be responsible for shaping tax-efficient structures end-to-end while ensuring disciplined contract execution, transactional precision, and the discretion this family's affairs require.

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of relevant legal experience
• Substantive experience with REITs, commercial real estate transactions, and complex property ownership structures.
• Demonstrated experience with M&A and private investment transactions.
• Working knowledge of trusts, estates, and wealth transfer planning concepts.
• Excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work directly and discreetly with high-net-worth principals and family members, with sound judgment and unquestioned integrity.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex tax and legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders.
• Highly organized, self-directed, and comfortable operating as a hands-on in-house counsel in a lean team environment.
• LLM in Taxation preferred, but not required with sufficiently strong practice experience.
• ideally combining tax law with transactional/contracts work
• ideally in a law firm, family office, or private investment setting.

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